Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Reckoning with the Past: An Appreciation and an Introduction 1
5. 2 Historical Guidance for Early Modern English Women and Children 18
6. 3 A Persian Mirror for English Magistrates: Thomas Preston’s Cambises and the Coming to Terms with the Marian Past 40
7. 4 Reform and Conversion: Contextualizing Richard Stanihurst’s Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) 64
8. 5 The Repertories of the Tower Records: William Bowyer’s Calendars of the English State Papers in the 1560s 87
9. 6 Past Plagues and Their Uses in Early Modern England 113
10. 7 “Women Worthies” in Eighteenth-Century Historical Culture: Sarah Chapone and George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752) 132
11. 8 Abiel Holmes and George Chalmers: Plagiarism and Annals in the American Republic of Letters 155
12. 9 William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium 180
13. 10 The Jewish Holocaust, Indigenous People, and the Politics of Recognition: A Cautionary Tale 203
14. 11 Engaging Right-Wing Populisms: Which Historical Memory for What Kind of Democracy? 228
15. Contributors 249
16. Index 253